NEW ORLEANS -- No, coach Sean Payton wasn’t lying this summer when he said he wanted to keep Alvin Kamara's “pitch count” similar to the past two years even though he’s no longer sharing the New Orleans Saints' backfield with Mark Ingram.
But Payton also knows that Kamara is one of the NFL’s elite game-changers.
So Payton is absolutely going to keep feeding him in games like Monday night’s opener, in which the Saints needed every bit of Kamara’s 169 yards from scrimmage in a thrilling 30-28 win over the Houston Texans.